How Does Gout Develop into Chronic Kidney Failure

2017-05-19 17:36

“Dr. Stone, it is nice to finally meet you.” Mr. Zhao said when he saw the doctor who prepared for consultation. This 48-year-old patient has been gout many years. However, he developed into Kidney Failure stage from Chronic Glomerulonephritis.

Disease information

Originally, Mr. Zhao just had high urea without attention. Even if gout relapsed several times, he still though he was young. It was easy to solve this problem. However, until three years ago, the gout appeared again along with severe Edema on both lower extremities and he felt weakness and fatigue of the whole body. The examination result showed that proteinuria +, creatinine level increased and kidney also had been damaged seriously.

What is the relation between gout and kidney failure?

The relapse of gout is because of large amount of urate deposition. If these urate accumulate in the kidney, which may form kidney stone or block kidney tubules, leading to kidney damage. If left untreated, along with the decline of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), the patient will have renal insufficiency and even Kidney Failure.

Of course, not all people who have high urea will have gout and not all patients with gout will cause kidney damage. Despite it is chronic disorder, it is possible to control the condition effectively in early stage.